On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 12:41 -0500, Kameleon wrote: > Currently our backuppc server is a Xen pv domU running Ubuntu 10.04. > It has served us well over the past two years. However it is time to > move it out of the virtual environment and back onto physical > hardware. This is only so that it can be located on the far edge of > our campus as far away from the physical servers it backs up as > possible while still keeping it on the fiber network. So with that we > are looking to install a fresh OS on the new hardware. We could stay > with Ubuntu and just load 12.04. Most of our other servers are Centos > or Fedora. Is there one distribution that is better than the other for > backuppc? I will be moving the /var/lib/backuppc pool (it is on it's > own lv) to the new machine. Should I expect any problems with this?
I have done something similar and migrated from a Ubuntu 10.04 machine to a Fedora 15 (now 16) machine with a block level copy over ssh. The steps where thus: 1. Install fedora or Distro of choice 2. Create Backuppc LV that is the size you want and must be bigger than the current install 3. From the new machine run: ssh -l root -c arcfour oldmachine dd if=/dev/backuppc/volume bs=1M | dd of=/dev/backuppc/newvolume bs=1M 4. Wait 5. Resize the filesystem to the correct size with: resize2fs /dev/backuppc/newvolume 6. setup new backuppc install, iirc you needed to move a few config files about and check pool mount points -- Tim Fletcher <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
